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Jazz Journal
JJ 01/74: Gary Burton – The New Quartet
Fifty years ago, Charles Le Vay hailed 'the best music from Burton in a long time', music that put 'Crystal Silence to rightful shame'
JJ 01/74: Don Cherry – Organic Music Society
Fifty years ago, before the biz coined 'world music', Barry McRae noted Cherry's 'beautiful' new record had almost nothing to do with jazz
JJ 01/74: Music Outside – Contemporary Jazz in Britain / Inside Jazz
Fifty years ago Art Napoleon read Ian Carr and Graham Collier attempting to explain why jazz was in so unpopular and what to do about it
JJ 01/74: Raising the curtain
Fifty years ago John Jack delivered a 'report on jazz in Russia', the latter then often confused with the USSR, which included Ukraine
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Rick Margitza at Jazz Hastings
Graham Thomas enjoyed a powerful set from US saxophonist Margitza, who denied getting anywhere near the intensity of Coltrane
JJ 01/64: Charlie Mingus – The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Sixty years ago Steve Voce found very good jazz solos amidst the usual Mingus mix of ugliness, brutality, hokum and sensitivity
JJ 01/64: Joe Henderson – Page One
Sixty years ago Sinclair Traill looked for the good in the saxman's debut but ended up asking why so much modern jazz was on the sad side
JJ 01/64: Ken Colyer – This Is Jazz
Sixty years ago Steve Voce reckoned Colyer's young men were trying to sound as if their playing had been affected by old age
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JJ 01/64: John Coltrane – Impressions
Sixty years ago Graham Boatfield found Coltrane's 1961 live set largely experimental, obsessed, stark and comfortless
JJ 01/64: Chuck Berry – More Chuck Berry
Graham Boatfield's 1964 review reminds us that not only politicians can exert tremendous influence on American culture while indicted
JJ 01/64: Bird: The Legend Of Charlie Parker
Sixty years ago Sinclair Traill said that Reisner's biography eclipsed any reservations one might have about Parker's music and character
JJ 01/64: In My Opinion – Jimmy Rushing
Sixty years ago the eminent Basie band singer reflected on Jimmy Yancey, Earl Hines, Hot Lips Page, Chris Barber and more
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